# Deaths in August 2002
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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2002.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

## August 2002
### 1

* Francisco Arcellana, 85, Filipino writer, poet and journalist.
* Theo Bruce, 79, Australian long jumper (silver medal winner in men's long jump at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
* Peter Carter, 37, Australian tennis player and coach, traffic collision.
* Adolf Glunz, 86, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II.
* Sumiko Hidaka, 79, Japanese actress, liver failure.
* Yuri Korshunov, 68, Russian lepidopterologist.
* A. P. Lutali, 82, Governor of American Samoa (1985–1989, 1993–1997), stroke.
* Henry Mazer, 84, American-Taiwanese conductor and recording artist.
* Don Owen, 90, American professional wrestling promoter.
* Jack Tighe, 88, American baseball coach.

### 2

* Joe Allison, 77, American songwriter, radio and television personality and record producer, lung disease.
* Roberto Cobo, 72, Mexican actor (Los Olvidados, The Place Without Limits).
* May Hardcastle, 89, Australian tennis player.
* Ilona Kolonits, 80, Hungarian documentary film director and news correspondent.
* Roy Kral, 80, American jazz pianist and vocalist, congestive heart failure.
* Magda László, 90, Hungarian operatic soprano.
* Richard Schreder, 86, American naval aviator and sailplane developer.
* Jean-Pierre Yvaral, 68, French op art and kinetic art artist.

### 3

* Edward Brodney, 92, American artist, known for his drawings and paintings of World War II.
* Peter Miles, 64, American actor, cancer.
* Danny Sue Nolan, 79, American film actress, stroke.
* Carmen Silvera, 80, British television and theatre actress (Dad's Army, 'Allo 'Allo!), lung cancer.
* Ruudi Toomsalu, 89, Estonian sprinter and long jumper.
* John G. Zimmerman, 74, American photographer, an innovator in sports photojournalism.

### 4

* William R. Crawford Jr., 74, American diplomat and ambassador (Yemen, Cyprus).
* Millard Lang, 89, American soccer and lacrosse player.
* Mike Payne, 40, American Major League Baseball player (Atlanta Braves), EEE.
* Salvatore Scianamea, 83, Brazilian fencer.

### 5

* Jes Peter Asmussen, 73, Danish iranologist.
* Francisco Coloane, 92, Chilean novelist and short fiction writer.
* Josh Ryan Evans, 20, American actor (Passions, How the Grinch Stole Christmas) and stunt performer (Baby Geniuses), complications from a heart condition.
* Chick Hearn, 85, television and radio announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team since 1960, fall.
* Willis Hudlin, 96, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators, St. Louis Browns, New York Giants).
* Franco Lucentini, 82, Italian writer (The Sunday Woman), suicide.
* Shinsuke Mikimoto, 71, Japanese actor, lung cancer.
* Darrell Porter, 50, American baseball player (Milwaukee Brewers, Kansas City Royals, St. Louis Cardinals, Texas Rangers), drug overdose.
* Matt Robinson, 65, American actor, writer and television producer, Parkinson's disease.
* Winifred Watson, 95, English writer (Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day).

### 6

* Jim Crawford, 54, Scottish motor racing driver, liver failure.
* Edsger W. Dijkstra, 72, Dutch computer scientist, colorectal cancer.
* John Donnelly Fage, 81, British historian.
* Justin Meyer, 63, American vintner and enologist, heart attack.
* Jean Sauvagnargues, 87, French politician.

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* Dominick Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne, 100, British aristocrat.
* Ookie Miller, 92, American gridiron football player.
* Al Smith, 56, Canadian ice hockey player, pancreatic cancer.
* Wan Da, 83, Chinese politician.

### 8

* Bernard Chidzero, 75, Zimbabwean politician, Finance Minister (1983–1995).
* Reiner Geye, 52, German football player, liver disease.
* Wilber Morris, 64, American jazz double bass player and bandleader.
* Mikhail Perlman, 79, Soviet gymnast and Olympic champion.
* Charles Poletti, 99, American lawyer and politician.
* Kapitolina Rumiantseva, 76, Russian Soviet realist painter and graphic artist.
* Doris Buchanan Smith, 68, American author children's books, ALS.
* Ronnie Stephenson, 65, English jazz drummer.
* Willi Ziegler, 73, German paleontologist.

### 9

* Don Chastain, 66, American actor and singer (Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Colt .45, The Rockford Files, Hawaii Five-O), colorectal cancer.
* Pascale de Boysson, 80, French actress.
* Jake Fendley, 73, American professional basketball player (Northwestern University, Fort Wayne Pistons).
* Meredith Gardner, 89, American linguist and codebreaker.
* Bertold Hummel, 76, German composer of modern classical music.
* Peter Matz, 73, American musician, composer, arranger and conductor, lung cancer.
* Paul Samson, 49, English guitarist, cancer.
* Ruud van Feggelen, 78, Dutch water polo player and coach (bronze medal in water polo at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
* Trần Độ, 78, Vietnamese politician and Lieutenant General of the People's Army.

### 10

* Colin Eggleston, 60, Australian film and television director and writer (Long Weekend, Homicide).
* Michael Houser, 40, American guitarist, pancreatic cancer.
* Kristen Nygaard, 75, Norwegian computer scientist and politician, heart attack.
* Eugene Odum, 88, American biologist.
* René Queyroux, 74, French fencer and Olympic medalist.
* Mordecai Waxman, 85, American rabbi, prominent conservative, known for confronting Pope John Paul II.
* Doris Wishman, 90, American B movie film director, screenwriter and producer, lymphoma.
* Czesław Łuczak, 80, Polish historian focusing on World War II.

### 11

* Nancy Chaffee, 73, American tennis player (1950, 1951, 1952 singles and doubles U.S. Indoor Champion), cancer.
* Per Cock-Clausen, 89, Danish figure skater (13-time Danish National Champion, figure skating at the Winter Olympics: 1948, 1952).
* Mick Dunne, 73, Irish sports journalist.
* Jiří Kolář, 87, Czech poet and writer.
* Franjo Kukuljević, 92, Croatian tennis player.
* Hermann Pálsson, 81, Icelandic language scholar and translator.
* Galen Rowell, 61, American wilderness photographer, photojournalist and climber, plane crash.
* Richard Wood, Baron Holderness, 81, British politician (Member of Parliament for Bridlington).

### 12

* John H. Leith, 82, American presbyterian theologian and minister.
* Michael De-la-Noy, 68, British journalist and author (The Queen Behind the Throne).
* Knud Lundberg, 82, Danish sportsperson, journalist and writer.
* John Shaw Rennie, 85, British diplomat.
* Enos Slaughter, 86, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, New York Yankees, Kansas City Athletics) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, lymphoma.
* Marjorie Williamson, 89, British educator, physicist and university administrator.

### 13

* Jack Creel, 86, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).
* Hermann Haller, 88, Swiss composer.
* Józef Daniel Krzeptowski, 81, Polish Olympic skier.
* Ulises Ramos, 82, Chilean footballer and manager.
* Al Vande Weghe, 86, American competition swimmer and Olympic silver medalist.

### 14

* Mary Heeley, 91, British tennis player.
* Peter R. Hunt, 77, British film editor (Dr. No, Goldfinger) and director (On Her Majesty's Secret Service), heart failure.
* Larry Rivers, 78, American painter.
* Dave Williams, 30, American singer of Drowning Pool, heart failure.

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* János Balogh, 89, Hungarian zoologist, ecologist, and academic.
* Henry Batista, 88, American film and television editor.
* Heinz Bauer, 74, German mathematician.
* Alberto Bertuccelli, 78, Italian football player.
* Jesse Brown, 58, American United States Marine and United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs, ALS.
* George Agbazika Innih, 63, Nigerian army general and politician.
* Edgardo Madinabeytia, 69, Argentine football goalkeeper.
* Arnie Moser, 87, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).
* Kyle Rote, 73, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
* Jean Stengers, 80, Belgian historian.
* Haim Yosef Zadok, 88, Israeli jurist and politician, heart attack.

### 16

* Janusz Bardach, 83, Polish-American Siberian gulag survivor and renowned plastic surgeon.
* Allan Bromley, 55, American computer scientist, historian of computing, cancer.
* Jeff Corey, 88, American actor (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, In Cold Blood, Little Big Man), fall.
* Martin Deutsch, 85, Austrian-American physicist and professor of physics at MIT, known as the discoverer of positronium.
* Morgan "Bill" Evans, 92, American horticulturalist and Disney landscape designer.
* Anton Guadagno, 77, Italian operatic conductor.
* Paul Michel Gabriel Lévy, 91, Belgian journalist and professor.
* Abu Nidal, 65, Palestinian terrorist, ballistic trauma.
* Ola Belle Reed, 85, American singer.
* John Roseboro, 69, American baseball player (Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers, Minnesota Twins, Washington Senators).

### 17

* Jimmy Bloodworth, 85, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies), heart attack.
* Edward Dziewoński, 85, Polish stage and film actor, and theatre director.
* Alicia Montoya, 82, Mexican actress, the daughter of the stage actress, kidney failure.
* Valentin Pluchek, 92, Russian theatre director.
* Rushyendramani, 85, Indian singer, dancer, and actress.
* Benjamin Thompson, 84, American architect.

### 18

* Turpal-Ali Atgeriyev, 33, Chechen rebel leader and top official in the rebel government, leukemia.
* Carter L. Burgess, 85, American public servant, business executive and diplomat (Assistant Secretary of Defense, Ambassador to Argentina).
* Bertil Ericsson, 93, Swedish football player.
* Ričardas Gavelis, 51, Lithuanian writer, playwright, journalist, and theoretical physicist.
* Dick O'Connell, 87, American front office executive in Major League Baseball.
* Dean Riesner, 83, American screenwriter (Dirty Harry, Play Misty for Me, The Enforcer).

### 19

* Antonio Barrios, 92, Spanish football player and coach.
* Eduardo Chillida, 78, Spanish Basque sculptor, Alzheimer's disease.
* Irving Copi, 85, American philosopher, logician and textbook author (Introduction to Logic).
* Satchidananda Saraswati, 87, Indian yoga guru and religious teacher.
* Jan Stenbeck, 59, Swedish business leader, media pioneer, sailor and financier.
* Alastair Gordon, 6th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, 82, British botanical artist and art critic.
* Sunday Silence, 16, American-bred thoroughbred race horse, winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes.

### 20

* Chris Columbus, 100, American jazz drummer.
* Augustine Geve, Solomon Islands Cabinet Minister, assassinated.
* Teodor Keko, 43, Albanian writer, journalist, and politician, pancreatic cancer.
* John Willett, 85, British journalist and translator of the works of Bertolt Brecht into English.

### 21

* Mikayil Abdullayev, 80, Soviet and Azerbaijani painter.
* O. A. Bushnell, 89, American microbiologist, professor and writer.
* Oscar Plattner, 80, Swiss cyclist.
* Bror Rexed, 88, Swedish neuroscientist and professor.

### 22

* Mark Bucci, 78, American Broadway, film and television composer (The 13 Clocks, Seven in Darkness, Human Experiments).
* Richard Lippold, 87, American sculptor.
* Manuel Lora-Tamayo, 98, Spanish politician.
* Jim McFadden, 82, Irish-Canadian ice hockey player.

### 23

* Anthony Stafford Beer, 75, British theorist.
* Dennis Fimple, 61, American character actor (Petticoat Junction, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., Green Acres), traffic collision.
* Emily Genauer, 91, American art critic.
* Wayne Simmons, 32, American gridiron football player, single-car crash.
* Hoyt Wilhelm, 80, American baseball player (New York Giants, Baltimore Orioles, Chicago White Sox) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame.

### 24

* Ted Ashley, 80, American film studio executive (chairman of Warner Bros) and talent agent, complications following heart surgery.
* Hugh Cruttwell, 83, English teacher of drama and principal of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
* Nikolay Guryanov, 93, Russian Orthodox priest.
* Wilhelm Meise, 100, German ornithologist.
* Cornelis Johannes van Houten, 82, Dutch astronomer.
* Johnny Wilson, 86, American professional football player (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Rams).

### 25

* Per Anger, 88, Swedish diplomat, known for shielding thousands of Hungarian Jews from Nazi death camps, stroke.
* Raúl Chibás, 86, Cuban politician, military officer and close associate of Fidel Castro, defected to U.S. in 1960.
* Stanley R. Greenberg, 74, American playwright and screenwriter.
* Dorothy Coade Hewett, 79, Australian poet, playwright and novelist, breast cancer.
* Karolina Lanckorońska, 104, Polish noble, philanthropist, and historian.
* Július Pántik, 80, Slovak film actor.
* William Warfield, 82, American concert bass-baritone singer and actor, complications following a fall.

### 26

* Aslambek Abdulkhadzhiev, 40, Chechen warlord, killed in action.
* Thomas Gordon, 84, American clinical psychologist.
* Vincent Massey, 75, Australian biochemist and enzymologist.
* Georg Werner, 98, Swedish swimmer (bronze medal in men's 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay at the 1924 Summer Olympics).

### 27

* Bob McKinlay, 69, Scottish football player.
* George Mitchell, 85, Scottish musician (The Black and White Minstrel Show).
* Crew Stoneley, 91, English athlete and Olympic silver medalist.
* Jane Tilden, 91, Austrian actress.
* John S. Wilson, 89, American music critic for The New York Times for four decades.

### 28

* David Bierk, 58, American-Canadian artist, pneumonia.
* Kay Gardner, 62, American musician, composer, author, and Dianic priestess, heart attack.
* Else Petersen, 92, Danish film and stage actress.
* Rudolf Schnackenburg, 88, German Catholic priest and New Testament scholar.

### 29

* Lance Macklin, 82, British racing driver.
* Alan MacNaughtan, 82, Scottish actor, cancer.
* Paul Tripp, 91, American children's musician, author, songwriter, and actor.
* Anatoliy Yulin, 73, Soviet (Belarusian) Olympic athlete (men's 400 metres hurdles: 1952, 1956, men's 4 × 400 metres relay: 1956).

### 30

* Thomas J. Anderson, 91, American publisher and politician.
* Mariya Bayda, 80, Russian medical orderly during World War II.
* Dave Dalby, 51, American professional football player (UCLA, Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders), traffic collision.
* José Sette Câmara Filho, 82, Brazilian lawyer, diplomat, and politician.
* Andy Johnson, 69, American basketball player.
* Zaid ibn Shaker, 67, Jordanian politician and soldier (Prime Minister of Jordan).
* J. Lee Thompson, 88, British film director (The Guns of Navarone, Cape Fear, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes), congestive heart failure.
* Horst Wendlandt, 80, German film producer.

### 31

* Lionel Hampton, 94, American jazz musician, heart failure.
* Sheldon H. Harris, 74, American historian and academic.
* Martin Kamen, 89, American scientist.
* Joe McCluskey, 91, American track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.
* Farhad Mehrad, 58, Iranian pop, rock, and folk musician, hepatitis C.
* Wong Pow Nee, 89, Malaysian politician and diplomat.
* George Porter, 81, British Nobel Prize winner in chemistry.
* Bunji Sakita, 72, Japanese-American theoretical physicist, cancer.
* Samson Samsonov, 81, Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter.